TKT Module 1 Revision: Receptive skills
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Receptive skills |
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There are two receptive skills. What are they? |
Reading and listening.
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| What does text
staging mean? Give an example. |
Text
staging refers to the ordering of the information which
is presented.
For example: In a simple story: the situation > the problem > the resolution of the problem > the personal reaction of the speaker / writer In a letter of complaint: the issue > the results of the problem > a call for action > the next step In a discussion essay: the theme > arguments for > arguments against > writer's personal view |
| What
information can be got by looking at the layout of a text? Give an example. |
We can often see immediately
what genre or text type
we have.
For example: A text divided into three columns with a headline and a picture at the top is probably a newspaper story. A dense text with lots of diagrams and long paragraphs is probably something technical or academic. A text divided into clear sections with lots of times and places is probably a timetable of some sort. |
| If we are
trying to understand someone giving us spoken directions to
the airport or reading the instructions for a new computer
program, what kind of listening and reading are we doing? |
In both cases, this is
intensive.
We need to understand almost everything we read or hear. |
| If we are at a
train station and want to catch a train to Margate, how do
we listen when we hear the announcer's voice? |
In this
case we are monitor
listening, waiting to hear the word
Margate. Then we
switch to intensive
listening get the platform number and the time.
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| What is back
channelling? Give two examples of the language we might use for it. |
This refers
to the need for the listener to show interest and show
understanding. There are some simple exponents of
this function such as:
Oh, I see. Really? Uh, huh. Ah, yes, I get the picture. |
| If you are
looking at a recipe to see how long to cook something for,
what are you doing? |
You are
scanning for a time
expression such as
for 30 minutes until brown and crispy |
| Define and give an example
of skim reading. |
Skimming means
looking through a text
to get the basic
gist.
An example might be to see if a news story is worth reading more carefully or whether a book is interesting for you. |
| What does
bottom-up processing mean and how is it different from
top-down processing? |
Bottom-up
processing involves using linguistic knowledge of the
pronunciation, lexis, intonation, grammar and so on to
understand a text.
Top-down processing involves using knowledge of the world or the subject to predict what it might be about and to make good guesses about the meanings of what is read or heard. |
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